Movies like Syndromes and a Century

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Syndromes and a Century (2006)
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Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Original name: แสงศตวรรษ
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, France, Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Style: atmospheric, touching, emotional, art house, contemplative, slow cinema, inspirational, absurd, aesthetic, post-horror ...
Plot: medical, buddhism, fall in love, doctors and patients, looking for love, symbolism, hospital, life philosophy, minimalism, lifestyle, society, reincarnation, underground, human relationship, lovers, monk, love and romance, urban, small town, poisoning, bittersweet, couple relations, power relations, biopic, doctor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, thailand
Keyword: avant-garde, doctors, thai

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about love and romance, society, couples, hopes, bittersweet, family relations and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Syndromes and a Century: The Doctor (1991), The World (2004), Blissfully Yours (2002), Labour of Love (2014), A Lake (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Doctor (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: hospital, medical, cancer, medicine, doctor, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, nurse, tumor, brain tumor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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The World (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: “The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen ...
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, social relations, society, amusement park, wedding, couples, bittersweet, immigrant, prostitute, artists and showbiz, misfit ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: china, tibet, new york, usa, asia ...
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77%
Blissfully Yours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Style: contemplative, sexy, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: sensuality, picnic, forbidden love, immigrant, countryside, on the road, explicit sex, real sex, infidelity, illegal immigrant, summer, nudity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand, burma
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69%
Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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A Lake (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style: emotional, psychological, stylized, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: physical appearance, family relations, mysterious character, human nature, wilderness, obsession, couple relations, family problems, love and romance, losing-it hero, isolation, woods ...
Time: year 2008
Place: europe
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64%
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Eden (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, housewife, boarding school, waking up, teacher, infatuation, family relations, power relations, couples, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place: new england
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60%
In the City of Sylvia (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot: obsession, city life, pursuit, looking for love, couples, society, crazy love, melancholy, lsd, minimal dialogue, love and romance, obsessive quest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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60%
The Dust of Time (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love and romance, parents and children, introspection, love triangle, couple relations, politics, starting over, society, state affairs, hopes, political unrest ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: kazakhstan, greece, new york, germany, asia ...
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58%
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Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: depressing, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, medical, hospital, nurse, doctor, poetry, terminal illness, chemotherapy, dying, philosophy, hopes, regret ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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52%
The Holy Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: teenage girl, virginity, perversion, doctor, youth, love and romance, society, couple relations, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, sin ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: argentina, usa, los angeles
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50%
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, reincarnation, jungle, magic realism, supernatural, loneliness, existentialism, buddhism, life philosophy, introspection, haunted by the past, farm ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
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49%
Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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48%
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Horse Money (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot: immigrant, introspection, social decay, haunted by the past, mental institution, revolution, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, misfit, existentialism, anthropology ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: portugal, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, true love, introspection, forbidden love, leaving home, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, starting over, small town, small town life ...
Place: south korea, asia
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47%
Mother and Son (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot: art, biopic, countryside, youth, childhood, mental disorder, landscape, mother and son, spirituality, minimal dialogue, artist, underground ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: 90s
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44%
...First Do No Harm (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: edutainment, controversial, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
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Time: 90s
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43%
A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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43%
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Three Seasons (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: scenic, independent film, sentimental, touching, lyrical ...
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Time: year 1999, 20th century, 70s
Place: asia, saigon, vietnam
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42%
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The Salesman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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42%
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Marathon (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, gender, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, artists and showbiz, writer's life, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, tragic love, love, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
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Five Senses of Eros (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Style: touching, serious, stylized, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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41%
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Doubt (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, breakup, couples, gender, fall in love, sexual relations, bittersweet, trust, love, gays and lesbians, friendship, deception ...
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40%
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
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40%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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39%
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Hadewijch (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style: thought provoking, touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: religious faith, convent, religions or cults, self discovery, love, muslim, human nature, clergy, friendship, youth, hopes, koran ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, ...
Style: medical drama, retro, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, medicine, power relations, workplace, doctors and patients, workplace situations, lifesaver, medical profession, nurse, physician ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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38%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
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38%
The God of Wood (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, society, lifestyle, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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38%
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Milk (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style: realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, introspection, teenage love, leaving home, unfulfillment, family relations, hopes, small town, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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